The greatest importance of standing committees is that they ______.

a. permit the leadership to control the legislative process
b. control the influence of lobbyists on the legislative process
c. are so powerful because they scrutinize, hold hearings on, amend, and often kill legislation
d. give the president more power in the legislative process than he would have otherwise


c. are so powerful because they scrutinize, hold hearings on, amend, and often kill legislation

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